Category: March 24

Some call it the NFL draft for medicine. Others compare it to the Academy Awards. Last Friday’s Match Day was one of the biggest days in a medical student’s life. It’s when young doctors find out where they’ll spend the next 3 to 7 years for residency, and what type of medicine they’ll practice. […]

40 percent of National Endowment for the Arts funds go to high-poverty neighborhoods, like Bedstuy, Brooklyn. If President Trump succeeds in cutting the agency from the federal budget, organizations in those neighborhoods will have to seek out private funding in order to stay afloat. And according to research, that may be a serious challenge. Here’s […]

If you are a young person charged with a crime in New York, you can end up in a lot of places: jail, prison, a group home, or a probation program. Carnegie Hall just unveiled a nationwide initiative. Its goal: bring more music and arts programs to kids and young adults who end up in the court system.

Everyone remembers a special smell–the smell of freshly mown grass, or the aroma of a hot dog grilling in the backyard. Sushmita Pathak’s special smell is the scent of mangoes. Here’s a story about how it became more than just a smell for her.

CAMILA: Now a look at the Whitney Biennial, which showcases young and often lesser known artists. This year, there was a controversial piece by Dana Schutz, a painting looking inside the open casket of a young Emmett Till. CAMILA: So, Acacia, you went and saw the piece? ACACIA: Yeah, I went down last [...]